House roll call 892 · 98th Congress · Oct 5, 1984
To amend S. 607 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. S. 607 amends the communications act of 1934. The oxley substitute reduces the authorizations
On Oct 5, 1984, the House voted 167–234 (S 607). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 48–205, Republicans 121–31. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 79 members voted against their own party.
During the 98th Congress (1983–1984), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 167
- No
- 234
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Oct 5, 1984
By party
- Republicans121 yes · 31 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats48 yes · 205 no · 19 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Ben Erdreich D-AL voted yes
- James Francis Mcnulty Jr. D-AZ voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted yes
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted yes
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL voted yes
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA voted yes
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted yes
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA voted no
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- James Charles Slattery D-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY voted no
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD voted yes
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted yes
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted no
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS voted yes
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted yes
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted yes
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted yes
- James McClure Clarke D-NC voted yes
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted yes
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM voted no
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY voted no
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- Lyle Williams R-OH voted no
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted yes
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted yes
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted yes
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted yes
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA voted yes
- Gus Yatron D-PA voted yes
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA voted no
- Austin John Murphy D-PA voted yes
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted no
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC voted yes
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
- James Marvin Leath D-TX voted yes
- Jack English Hightower D-TX voted yes
- William Neff Patman D-TX voted yes
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX voted yes
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted yes
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Tommy (Tom) Joe Vandergriff D-TX voted yes
- Norman Sisisky D-VA voted yes
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted yes
- James R. Olin D-VA voted yes
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted no
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA voted no
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA voted no
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA voted no
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- James Francis Mcnulty Jr. D-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- James McClure Clarke D-NC
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- William Carney R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- William Neff Patman D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Tommy (Tom) Joe Vandergriff D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Sala Galante Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Katie Beatrice Hall D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- James Michael Shannon D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Robin Britt D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Harry Reid D-NV
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Frank Girard Harrison D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Jim Moody D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Barbara Boxer D-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Harold Washington D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm R-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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